Enterprises are turning to AI to solve their efficiency problems, but is just a short-term fix?

Michael Kitces and Ben Henry-Moreland ask whether these long-term problems require a solution other than AI? JANUARY 21, 2026 By Ben Henry-Moreland and Michael Kitces As companies grow and merge over time, they accumulate technical debt. Technologies, capabilities, and processes that in a perfect world would be retooled and improved every time the company grows…

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Transformer architecture, the one innovation that supercharged AI: Best ideas of the century

Today’s most powerful AI tools – those that can summarize documents, generate artwork, write poetry or predict how incredibly complex proteins fold – all rest on the shoulders of the “transformer”. This neural network architecture, first announced in 2017 at a modest conference center in California, allows machines to process information in a way that…

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Six Trends That Will Decide Who Wins the Next Decade

Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing faster than the network that powers it. As Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella recently warnedthe real limit of AI isn’t the chips… it’s the electricity. Energy has become the main bottleneck in AI, pushing tech giants to create their own energy source and reboot all available energy sources. Whoever gains this…

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Using AI Personas To Craft Synthetic Mental Health Therapists Of All Types And Gauge The Future Of Psychotherapy

Devising AI personas that are therapists of all types is handy for many reasons. getty In today’s column, I examine in-depth the use of AI personas to craft synthetic mental health therapists. This is readily undertaken via modern-era generative AI and large language models (LLMs). With a few detailed instructions in a prompt, you can…

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Vietnam’s first standalone AI Law: An overview of key provisions, future implications

Le Vietnam accélère ses efforts pour devenir une puissance technologique régionale, avec des investissements stratégiques dans intelligence artificielle et semi-conducteurs soulignant cette ambition. Les responsables gouvernementaux ont souligné que les technologies sont deux moteurs de l’innovation et de la compétitivité mondiale, visant à développer les talents et à construire des centres de fabrication intelligents. Pour…

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China blocks Nvidia H200 AI chips that US government cleared for export – report | Nvidia

Suppliers of parts for Nvidia’s H200 have suspended production after Chinese customs authorities blocked shipments of the newly approved artificial intelligence processors from entering China, according to a report. Reuters could not immediately verify the information, which appeared in the Financial Times citing two people with knowledge of the matter. Nvidia did not immediately respond…

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The pioneer behind Google Gemini is tackling an even bigger challenge—using AI to ‘solve’ disease

The astonishingly prodigious child of bohemian parents, Hassabis grew up in North London in the 1980s. And through the city haze, every now and again, Hassabis could see one constellation—Orion, named for Greek mythology’s formidable hunter and for centuries a guide to sailors and farmers. Some 40 years later, it remains Hassabis’s favorite constellation, in…

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